Soapbox: Juggling ambition with motherhood
Director Alexandra McKellar plays a few roles - mother, teacher, performing artist, partner and long distance driver.
Don't Give Up your Day Job: Joel Shadbolt
For episode #67, Danny McCrum talks to Joel about his musical heroes, how his career got started, working with the Kora boys and how L.A.B. works behind the scenes.
Counting the Beat: The Vinyl Frontier
Georgie Bloomfield vinylly looks beyond the puns and into the vibrant community of record lovers.
Soapbox: That quote that bugged me - a reader reacts
In her recent article, Johanna Knox offered a passionate analysis of the current state of appreciation of the arts in Aotearoa and beyond. Wolf Heidecker wrote to TBI with his response
Lowdown #41: Controversy and Breaking News
Mark Amery serves up this week’s menu of breaking stories across Aotearoa’s arts media
Artful splendour in yesteryear elegance
Kate Powell applauds a breath of fresh air and sheer beauty just breaking on the art circuit
Who Got the Gig? Samantha Walker
Emanuella de Ruiter follows up one of the best job ads we have seen for a while - it got over 1,000 hits, so we were super keen to see who got that gig
Advice to my 22 year-old self: Samantha Lissette
Trust the process: Artist Samantha Lissette reminds herself that life is a messy business - and you don’t have to clean it all up at once
Counting the Beat: Apples & Art
Georgie Bloomfield exposes how the arts helped her to heal.
The Arts Prescription
A new national network has just been launched by Hon Carmel Sepuloni focussing on why culture and creativity is so important to the future health of Aotearoa. Alice Geary reports
Lowdown #40: Live Action Dramas
Mark Amery on a family art affair, public fascination with the lifelike in Christchurch with Ron Mueck and auction house operatic dramas in Auckland.
The time is now - Responding to PM’s challenge on wellbeing and arts
Martin Hill’s iconic work gives vision to Jacinda Ardern’s principles of health of the people, the climate and the planet. This Soapbox is about why the time is now for New Zealand to fiercely lead.